Male rape is a feminist issue : feminism, governmentality and male rape /

Male rape is a feminist issue : feminism, governmentality and male rape /

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Author / Creator:Cohen, Claire, author.
Imprint:Basingstoke, Hampshire Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
©2014
Description:ix, 214 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Critical criminological perspectives
Critical criminological perspectives.
Subject:
Male rape.
Feminism.
Feminism.
Male rape.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9955834
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Varying Form of Title:Feminism, governmentality and male rape
ISBN:9780230223967 (hardback)
0230223966 (hardback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-208) and index.
Summary:"Male rape is a feminist issue -- but perhaps not in the way that you might think. This work is an experiment in Foucauldian thought that attempts to satisfy Foucault's imperative to 'think differently'. From this positioning, feminist constructions of 'male rape' can plausibly be claimed to operate as a 'regime of truth', but one must necessarily question whether this is running counter to patriarchy. This book seeks to problematize knowledge and practices regarding 'male rape', examining the social realms of the Academy, popular culture, policy and provision in the constitution of the subject. Discussion is moved beyond notions of fairness or justice. Instead, Cohen seeks to ascertain the discursive regularities in these sites, considers the power-effects of such discourse and thus conceives of 'male rape' as illustrating the success of governmentality."--Back cover.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part I. Contextualizing Chapters - Thinking Differently
  • 1. Introduction - Feminism, Governmentality and 'Male' Rape
  • 1.1. Preliminary reflections
  • 1.2. Overview
  • 2. Problematization - A Critical Ontology of the Present
  • 2.1. Battle over the male rape victim
  • 2.2. Discovery of the male rape victim
  • 2.3. Forgotten history of the male rape victim
  • 2.4. Conclusion
  • 3. Investigation - A Foucauldian Triangulation?
  • Part II. Triangulation Chapters - Deploying the (Male Rape) Subject
  • 4. Representations - Knowing Victimhood
  • 4.1. The production of the 'truth' of male rape: the knowing and known subject
  • 4.2. A focus on reportage and entertainment: framing and governmentality
  • 4.3. Male rape is not real rape: mediated messages of difference and indifference
  • 4.4. Conclusion
  • 5. Biopolitics - Imagining Victimhood
  • 5.1. A focus on the 'horizon' of male rape: the imagining, thinking, reasoning subject
  • 5.2. A focus on fans and fandoms: the audience and governmentality
  • 5.3. Pretty when he's broken: slash and the eroticization of male sexual victimization
  • 5.4. Conclusion
  • 6. Individuation - Acting on Victimhood
  • 6.1. Normativity in the 'practices' around male rape: the acting and acted upon subject
  • 6.2. A focus on policy and provision: redaction and governmentality
  • 6.3. All victims are not equal: the phenomenon of the invisibilized man
  • 6.4. Conclusion
  • Part III. Concluding Thoughts
  • 7. Feminism and Male Rape - Ironies and Governmentality
  • 8. Excavating the Gendered/ing Dimensions of Male Rape
  • 8.1. Foucauldian feminism and male rape: the tyranny of the model
  • 8.2. Foucauldian feminism and male rape: ambivalence and resistance
  • 9. Epilogue: Male Rape is a Feminist Issue/Male Rape is a Feminist Issue!/Male Rape is a Feminist Issue?
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
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